Back to jobsSupports the Director or Senior Manager, Automation Solutions in the overall relationship management of the Integration Solutions program and key partners in functions and business units for program intake, process assessment, change management, and benefits tracking
Oversees the intake & diagnostic of potential initiatives across the enterprise and owns the framework to identify, evaluate and prioritize candidate initiatives in collaboration with business unit stakeholders
Lead intake sessions through workshops, targeted and functional assessments, collects data, and conducts analysis to assess candidate processes for Integration Solutions for the supported business unit or function. Facilitates initial and ongoing conversations with business units and acts as relationship manager to the CoE for various business portfolios
Responsible for defining a product’s release and iteration backlog based on product’s overall vision and input from business SMEs, customer experience and the agile team.
Understand and articulate the product’s vision, including its objectives, value proposition, and key risks associated with opportunities/ideas
Collaborate with SMEs to assess how features will impact the end-user and how to effectively manage them
Develop product roadmap and high-level backlog, further decomposed into releases which deliver significant value to the end user.
Prioritize (and continuously reprioritize) delivery based on the calculated benefits/value of identified features/epics.
Actively collaborate and engage with their respective Automation Hubs
Regularly attend planning sessions, stand-ups, retrospectives, iteration reviews and other team meetings in order to verify that the output of the team is consistently delivering business value and aligned with the agreed upon commitments
Shield the team from interruptions and outside interference by acting as a conduit between the business and the team
Lead the development of user stories and supporting documentation with applicable acceptance criteria
Decompose larger objectives or journeys (“epic”) into features and user stories that can be understood and committed to by members of the team
Participate in iteration planning discussions to reduce ambiguity around the user stories and ensure clarity, optimize functionality and define features that align with product vision
Support the team by being available to provide definitions required to complete detailed user stories, whether through face-to-face meetings or suitable light-weight documentation
Advocate for the highest attainable levels of quality and for approaches that will minimize the impact of technical debt on the product and organization
Utilize SMEs – including team members – to assist in the validation of epics and user stories as well as other activities such as user experience testing
Prioritize backlog to ensure highest value features/epics are developed first and that all stories are aligned with and traceable to the product vision
The Product Manager is empowered by the business to make decisions about the product’s direction
Define features, themes and epics in suitable levels of detail and prioritize them based on their respective business value
Establish and communicate product vision with key stakeholders and business owners, using customer research and available reporting and analysis to provide an economic justification for key decisions
Review the output of the agile team at the end of every iteration, and before the product is released into the market, to ensure that it meets expectations
Ensure full awareness of market and trends in the business environment through effective communication with stakeholders; using research and available analysis to help inform ideas
Contribute to discussions on solutions and execute assigned priorities with consideration and awareness of potential impact on other initiatives (the organization’s overall Product / Portfolio Backlog).
Contribute to building organizational capability and expertise on agile adoption
Lead and coach the organization to accelerate its adoption of agile by sharing successes, useful artifacts, practices and experiences
Communicate effectively across diverse audiences within and outside of the development team (Stakeholders, Executives), acting as a champion of the agile methodology
Partner with Agile Coach and other agile teams to share findings, best practices, and resources to help mature the organization’s agility
